• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I was GM’ing this game. The premise was that the goddesses created the world as this perfectly idyllic place – an absolute utopia that I frequently compared to Mayberry RFD – until the shit hit the fan. An ancient evil awakened and turned it into an absolute post-apocalyptic wasteland. Except for the single most populous city which the goddesses managed to shield from the corrupting influence of the ancient evil (before themselves succumbing to the corrupting influence). (A few fortunate pockets here and there also escaped the corruption.)

    The PCs were the most murder-hobo of murder hobos. There was a town of halflings who continued their happy lives from before the calamity by day but turned into demons by night, not remembering anything come morning. The party marched them all (children included) into the schoolhouse, barricaded them in, and set fire to it. When they ran across a few dwarves who had retained their sanity, they robbed them blind. In the one city which was fully shielded from the ancient evil, they fireballed a procession of a dozen or so devout monks to take out one cultist hiding among them. That all just to name a few of their heinous crimes.

    Of course, in response to all of this, the central city put out arrest warrants on the party. They were going to be dragged into court and hung out to dry whether they liked it or not. I had a whole court scene planned.

    But it never happened.

    They sneaked into town, publicly executed the mayor and the sheriff, and installed the local crime boss as the new mayor.

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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      Bahamut is a commonly recurring Draconic deity of Good dragons who often appears in a humanoid shape with 7 yellow birds hanging about.

      If you’re on his bad side, you’re going to get fucked up.

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          2 months ago

          IIRC, the seven canaries are all disguised ancient gold dragons, and Bahamut himself is known as “the platinum dragon,” so murderhobos should prepared to get their shit rocked.

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            Fizban’s treasury of dragons has stats for an avatar of Bahamut. When it ‘dies’ it comes back to life and hits everything it wants too for 100 radiant damage and is now stronger (Fizban’s introduced greatwyrms and avatars of Tiamat and Bahamut are suped up versions of those)

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    2 months ago

    Putting a “random” encounter that didn’t exist five minutes earlier in the path of your players, knowing it will be a TPK, is the DM version of murder hobo-ing. You’re ignoring the logic of the game and the feelings of the other players so you can have fun killing things. You’re not fixing the problem, you’re becoming part of it.

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      It’s telling you think the only thing that can come from that situation is a TPK. Nobody’s ever made a threat to “straighten up or else”, as the most basic and uninspired alternative possibility.

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        2 months ago

        The post is about a seething GM putting their players who always start a fight against someone unassuming, but undefeatable. What exactly do you think the DM in the meme is trying to do?